HIST 323 Lecture 1: History 323 Notes April 04-11
4 Aug 2019
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No more love poetry dedicated to male/male. Higher up you are socially the younger you marry use marriages for status. Christina married at age 17 that"s young for her class. Servants marry at around 20/21 to a young man at 27/28. Italy: marriage customs continues for centuries age 15 was the average age for low and high class marriages. There was a gap between available females and the men that remained unmarried therefore, creates need for compensatory sexuality. Rocky reading: idea of sexual behaviour being acts performed by the body and no as an expression of sexual id, male sex now called sodomy 15th c, popular understanding: sodomy belonged to males even though. Augustine wrote about sodomy as being unnatural between the wife and husband and as going against nature: pg. 153: sodomite: the one who performs the dominant act, man who has sex with boys, unnatural dominant role, as in the ancient times, the younger sub and older dom.
